Market Watch Weekly

On Thursday, the world marked the one-year anniversary of the WHO declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. Some will remember March 11, 2020 as the day the NBA paused its season, beginning a cascade of postponed or canceled sporting events that......

The seemingly endless election of 2020 is finally over with Democrats winning both Senate seats in Georgia. However, we still have a few days left in what’s become a disastrous conclusion to a controversial Trump administration....

The longer-term outlook for stocks is positive, in our view, with support from economic growth, corporate earnings and interest rates. In the near term, we expect volatility to remain elevated and markets to consolidate recent gains....

We think the combination of a sustained-but-gradual economic expansion, rebound in corporate profits, and an ongoing monetary policy stimulus – though not immune to presidential policies – will set the broader course for the markets....

North American benchmarks posted their first negative week in more than a month as investors took profit and rotated out of the high-flying tech sector....

It was a record-breaking week for the S&P 500 and tech-centric NASDAQ. Five months removed from the biggest market selloff of our lifetime, the S&P 500, the broadest measure of the U.S. stock market, was within 0.40 points of breaking the 4,000 mark....

The last 100 days have benn challenging for everyone, and for many different reasons, but the stock market carnage that we endured in February and March is now largely in the rear-view mirror....